Delivery transit working days [shipping_transit_business_days]

Use the delivery transit working days [shipping_transit_business_days] attribute when you want to customise your delivery operational days in Merchant Center. Delivery transit working days [shipping_transit_business_days] are distinct from calendar days as this attribute indicates days of the week when your carrier service will deliver the product.

When to use

Optional
Delivery transit working days [shipping_transit_business_days] should only be used if your delivery policy has different working days than Monday to Saturday. When left blank, delivery transit working days [shipping_transit_business_days] will default to Monday to Friday.

This attribute is used with the carrier delivery [carrier_shipping] attribute's sub-attributes, minimum transit time [fixed_min_transit_time] and maximum transit time [fixed_max_transit_time], to show accurate carrier delivery dates. Delivery transit working days [shipping_transit_business_days] are also used with the delivery [shipping] attribute's sub-attributes, minimum transit time [min_transit_time] and maximum transit time [max_transit_time], to show accurate delivery dates.

For example, the listed minimum transit time [min_transit_time] and maximum transit time [max_transit_time] for a carrier are one and three days respectively. When an order is fulfilled on Wednesday, by default Google will show that the customer will receive the product by Saturday at the latest. However, if the listed transit working days are only Monday to Friday, Google will show that the customer will receive the product by Monday at the latest. Learn more about how Google calculates delivery speeds based on carrier.

Note: Orders with handling or transit times that overlap with a public holiday will have the estimated delivery date extended by a day. Learn more about how public holidays affect estimated delivery time.

Format

Follow these formatting guidelines to make sure that Google understands the data that you're submitting. Learn how to submit attributes and attribute values.

Formatting specifications
Technical name	`shipping_transit_business_days`
Type	Days of the week separated by a semi-colon or range separated by a dash.
Supported values	`M, Mon, Monday` for Monday `T, Tue, Tuesday` for Tuesday `W, Wed, Wednesday` for Wednesday `R, Thu, Thursday` for Thursday `F, Fri, Friday` for Friday `S, Sat, Saturday` for Saturday `U, Sun, Sunday` for Sunday
Repeated field	No
Schema.org property (what is this?)	No

File format examples

To ensure that your attribute is recognised correctly, use the formatting specific to your data source type.

Data source format Examples

Text (TSV or CSV) data sources

For per-day entries:
M;W;R;F;S Mon;Wed;Thu;Fri;Sat Monday;Wednesday;Thursday;Friday;Saturday

For ranges:
M-F Mon-Fri Monday-Friday

For mixed per-day and range:
Mon;Wed-Fri

With country attribute (optional):
US:MWRFS

XML data sources <g:shipping_transit_business_days>M;T;W;R;F</g:shipping_transit_business_days>

Merchant API

To format your data in the Merchant API, check the Merchant API resource.

Note: To ensure that this product data attribute is recognised by our system correctly, remember to submit your data feed file in a format that we support.

Minimum requirements

These are the requirements that you'll need to meet to show your product. If you don't follow these requirements, we'll disapprove your product and let you know in your Merchant Center account.

State all active working days of your carrier service in Merchant Center.
Add the country attribute to delivery transit working days [shipping_transit_business_days] if different regions have different transit working days. Leave the country attribute blank if transit working days are the same for all regions.

By default, your transit working days will be set to Monday to Saturday. You can specify different working days, including weekends, in your Merchant Center account.

Best practices

These best practices can help you to go beyond the basic requirements to optimise your product data for performance.

Customise working days in Merchant Center to include all active operational days of your carrier. Make sure that you list operational days during public holidays and weekends.
Provide the maximum handling time [max_handling_time], minimum handling time [min_handling_time] and delivery handling working days [shipping_handling_business_days] if they're not the default Monday to Saturday. Add these attributes to show accurate delivery dates to customers.
Use only one type of supported value. For example, if you use M to mean Monday in the data source, use TWRFSU for the other days of the week that you need to specify. Don't mix value types, e.g. M-Sunday.
Use ranges rather than per-day entries if there are no gaps between working days.
Don't use delivery transit working days [shipping_transit_business_days] in carrier delivery [carrier_shipping]. Use the carrier transit time [carrier_transit_time] attribute instead for accurate delivery dates.

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